Senior Rotational Physiotherapist

Go back East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 09 November 2025

We are looking for a dynamic & enthusiastic individual to join our team in North East Essex within the field of Physiotherapy. We are looking for an experienced band 5 who is ready to transition into a rotational band 6 post or established Band 6's looking for a new challenge.

The current rotations in North East Essex consist of Critical Care, Acute Respiratory Care Unit, Surgical Wards, Medical Respiratory adult & Paediatric, Oncology, General Medical wards, Elderly wards, Emergency Medicine, Stroke Unit, Trauma Orthopaedics and the new Elective Orthopaedic Centre at Colchester Hospital, along with community rotations in Neuro rehabilitation, MSK outpatients, Community hospitals & Community Respiratory.

Staff are expected to participate in 7 day working & work on the inpatient respiratory on-call rota.

We are an Integrated Therapy team with Physiotherapists & Occupational Therapists working closely in integrated teams to provide excellent & rapid assessment & discharge planning to our clients. Therapy services are held in high regard within the trust.

You will need to have experience in discharge planning & skills in identification of needs for adaptive equipment.

Interviews will be held in person, due to the practical nature of this post.

You will complete competency framework to enable participation in the annual Band 6 rotational scheme. This includes rapid assessment, facilitating discharge, specialist rehabilitation, falls prevention & specialist inpatient services in Critical Care, Stroke & Neurology & Respiratory care.

You will be expected to perform safe, evidenced based physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with diverse presentations & complex physical & psychological conditions & deliver an individualised treatment programme from a range of options

You'll undertake comprehensive assessments of patients, including those with diverse or complex presentations, using clinical reasoning skills & manual assessment techniques to assist in diagnosis & choose from a range of treatment options to achieve the desired goal. To formulate treatment plans & recommend best course of intervention, considering patients&apos personal goals & objectives, to develop comprehensive discharge plans.

You will be responsible for your own caseload & for a defined area of the service, initially with supervision of senior staff then progressing towards working without direct supervision. Supervision involves regular formal training & clinical reasoning sessions, peer review & one to one assessments.

You'll be professionally & legally accountable for all aspects of your own work, including issues around consent and capacity.

To manage clinical risk within own patient caseload.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients&apos own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

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• BSc / MSc Physiotherapy
  
• HCPC Registered Physiotherapist
  
• Completion of an appropriate leadership course
  
• Completion of an approved University Clinical education course
  
• Membership of CSP
  
• Completion of an NHS Trust preceptorship program
  

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• Wide range of rotational experience at Band 5 to include core areas - respiratory, ward management, Ortho / MSK and neuro/community
  
• Evidence of working with and delegating to assistants / technicians
  
• Experience of working on a Respiratory On-call list
  
• Experience of supervising students clinically.
  
• NHS experience as a Band 5 Physiotherapist
  

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• Evidence of ongoing CPD relevant to the role.
  
• Evidence of Teaching / leading of IST to other staff
  
• Knowledge of local community services and discharge pathways
  
• Examples of application of current evidence based practice and critical appraisal
  

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

£31,049 to £46,580 a year per annum pro rata